Exam 5: Violence in the Home

The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of _____ was intended to prevent unwarranted removal of children from their families by making "reasonable efforts" to keep families together or to unify families in a timely manner if placement could not be avoided.

In ______,Congress passed the Older Americans Act,which was the first piece of national legislation that expressed society's commitment to protect vulnerable older Americans at risk.

The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)interviews all household members aged ______ or older,not just adults.

The ______ mandated to expansion of the services available to strengthen families as well as to provide additional supports for children who must be placed outside the home.

In 1962,the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association published an article in which this term was first coined and which provided a means to publicize the problem.

The intergenerational transmission of violence theory,sometimes referred to as the _____,contends that those who experience and/or witness violence as a child are more likely to become violent in adulthood,compared with children who do not experience or witness violence.

Discuss elder abuse and the United States and why these crimes go unreported to law enforcement authorities.

In what year did the CDC conduct the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS)?

______ is one of the most recent types of family violence to be acknowledged as a social problem,and it is one of the most difficult types of violence to uncover for a number of reasons that include the isolation of the victims (i.e.,they don't go to school like children)as well as the extreme shame that many elders feel as a result of their victimization.

In 2010,Congress passed the ______,which was the first comprehensive federal legislation to address elder abuse.

Virtually all states and the District of Columbia have ______ policies for felony domestic assaults and warrantless arrests for an unwitnessed domestic violence-related misdemeanor assault.

Research conducted by Cupach and Spitzberg identified eight specific tactics commonly employed by stalkers.List all eights specific tactics along with a brief description of each.

Stalking first entered our society's consciousness after the murder of Rebecca Schaeffer in 1989.Rebecca was a 21-year-old actress starring in a popular sitcom,My Sister Sam.

Today,35 states offer victims of IPV some form of civil protection or temporary restraining order.

In 1981,the first large-scale experiment to test the deterrent effects of arrest on batterers,called the Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment,was conducted by ______.

Intimate partner violence has been around forever,but it has only been in the past 60 years or so that it has finally been acknowledged as a social problem and a crime.

______ generally means that victims' rights and wishes are factored into the process of administering justice.

Optional prosecution requires government attorneys to bring criminal charges against batterers,regardless of the wishes of the victim.

Discuss the risk factors associated with physical child abuse.

Coordinated community responses to violence against women across the domains of criminal justice,social services,and victim advocacy groups are increasingly being employed to both prevent and ameliorate the consequences of this violence.